Then, it is optional with them to extend their hospitality or not. Do not be offended if it is not done.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

In this manner Prince Houssain became the possessor of the tapestry, and was overjoyed that at his arrival at Bisnagar he had found so rare a piece, which he never disputed would gain him the hand of Nouronnihar.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Despite the good advice of his two devoted friends, Maitre Mathias and Marsay, he asked, through the instrumentality of his great-aunt, Madame de Maulincour, for the hand of Natalie Evangelista in marriage, and obtained it.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

With regard to the Early Love-Letters of 1796, these are found most complete in a work published by Longmans in 1824, in two volumes, with the title, "A Tour through Parts of the Netherlands, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and France, in the year 1821-2, by Charles Tennant, Esq.; also containing in an Appendix Fac-simile Copies of Eight Letters in the handwriting of Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife Josephine."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, from their mouths to the head of navigation, were secured.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He knew now that he ought not to have done so.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Independent of his two cousins' enjoyment in it, the evening was to him of no higher value than any other appointed meeting of the two families might be.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Our friend Mitis carries this humour of never refusing a present, to the very point of absurdity—if it were possible to couple the ridiculous with so much mistaken delicacy, and real good-nature.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

This was the first time in the history of New York that a body of women had appeared before the Legislature, and in their innocence they had full confidence that their request would be granted in a very short time.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Through the gates of Derbend, he entered Persia at the head of ninety thousand horse: with the innumerable forces of Kipzak, Bulgaria, Circassia, and Russia, he passed the Sihoon, burnt the palaces of Timour, and compelled him, amidst the winter snows, to contend for Samarcand and his life.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The heat of New York was intense, and I was not sorry to leave it at midnight for Boston, and straight on via St. John's, New Brunswick, to Sydney, where I took the Bruce , which runs between [160] Sydney and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, a distance of a hundred miles.
— from Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland by Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir

Montesano is the county seat, located at the head of navigation on the Chehalis river, and on the Northern Pacific railway.
— from A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell

I could see Miss Carley did not think much of the furniture when I took her over the house on new-year's-day.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It is, however, evident that their blood has at no time mingled with that of the wild children of the desert, for scarcely amongst the hills of Norway would you find figures and faces more essentially Gothic than those of the Maragatos.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

In the consciousness of her fancied superiority of education, she smiled at the simplicity of his faith, and, as the handsome young gentleman appeared by no means an ineligible parti , she believed it to be her special task to train her prospective husband according to her own notions.
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

Little incident occurred until they reached the head of navigation of the river, where they found all the Confederate vessels which had been flying before them for two days.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

Now bicause the Frier wold no longer be mocked at their hands, they, maruellously troubled, and almost at their wits ende, taking aduise among them selues, brake the matter vnto him, and tolde him, that in verie déede they fréely confessed many of those apparitions which he had séene to be fayned, and that for no other cause, but to the ende he should perseuere in his profession and Religion, howbeit the very effect of the matter was most true, and that he ought not to doubt, but that he bare the wounds of Christ in his body.
— from Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night And of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, Which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdoms by Ludwig Lavater

“Let us forget all the nonsense that has occurred.” “‘Nonsense,’ my dear child?”
— from Moon-Face, and Other Stories by Jack London

The hush of night is falling round, and the shepherd must gather his flock into the fold.
— from The Shepherd Of My Soul by Charles J. (Charles Jerome) Callan

[Pg 116] to His own nature.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg